Repainting of the ‘hotel’ side of Boat Station & PWay Maintenance -1st September 2018

 

For the first weekend of the repainting, between 24 – 26^th August the Ellon Team of Ray Kenyon, Nick Courtier, Jim Pittendrigh and Colin Frost were ably assisted by Malcolm and Marion Timperley, Neil McQueen and Mike Tough.  Marion and Malcolm completed the painting of the tops of the 13 windows on the platform side, and the remaining team commenced preparing the hotel side – or main entrance. 

 

First jobs were to remove the display boards from the walls, rub down the existing paintwork

 

 

 

 

Above left to right -  Nick Courtier is replacing defective putty in the windows and Jim Pittendrigh is continuing the sanding, Colin adjusting ladder, Ray sugar soaping, with Mike applying undercoat to the rapid drying aluminium oxide primer that was applied to the bare wood. (rest assured Ian no flowers were harmed during this production line)

 

 

On the Sunday the weather was not kind to us, but by the end of the day  we had applied the undercoat to all  the brown painted areas and primed and undercoated the metalwork on the pipes and gutters.

 
For the second weekend 31 Aug to 2 Sept the team consisted of Ray Kenyon, Jim Hardy and Colin Frost from Ellon and Mike Tough and Robert Walters.

 



The over Friday and Saturday the remaining windows requiring new putty were completed and the cream areas of the walls and windows were sanded and undercoated, and Jim Hardy was able to commence applying some cream top coat.

 

 

By the close of play on Sunday all the walls of the building had received a top coat of Cream or  Brown paint.

This just leaves the top coat to be applied to the windows - and that will be another job successfully completed. 

Thanks for text from Colin Frost and photos courtesy of Ray Kenyon.

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 Meanwhile Permanent Way work continued - on Saturday 1st September, with Georgie (after another timeous departure of the Royal Scotsman), Mike, Fergus, Roger and Ben attending to many dipped joints in the area of "Fishermans' Crossing", by the dark art of Measured Shovel Packing.

Above Ben Tyrell, whom we haven't seen for a while but has been kindly refurbishing one of our chainsaws at home - So we shall let him off !

Photo and Info from Mike.

Thanks to all concerned.